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LETTER XI 



T Took the road from Dunham to Knuls~ 

 ■*■ ford : In that track, land letts from 20 s. 

 to 3 5 ^. ^><?r acre. Farms rife from 40 /. to 

 200 /. a year. They reckon the product of 

 a cow at 5 /. 



About Knutsford there are chiefly two 

 foils, clay and fand. The average rent is 

 about 16 s. an acre. Farms are, in general, 

 about 20/. or 30/. but fome of 150/. and 

 200/. a year. 



Their courfes, 



The quantity of wheat fown is but trifling. 

 For barley they plow three or four times, 

 fow three bumels, and gain, at an average, 

 five quarters. For oats they plow once, fow 

 five bufhels, and gain from forty to fifty. 

 Very few turneps are fown by farmers, but 

 fome by gentlemen. 



The farmers are getting more into tillage 

 than formerly, and to their prejudice, for 

 barley will" only grow with much manure. 

 The town of Manchejier letting up malt- 

 kilns 



